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SheetFL-KEYSTONE-HEIGHTS-FL · Keystone Heights, FL 1,539 pop · income 59th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Keystone Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Keystone Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Wellman · lowest
56,696
Wellman · lowest
56,696 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #1
Chilton · near
77,935
Chilton · near
77,935 median HH income
70.1% of the leader · rank #2
Keystone Heig… · this city
77,938
Keystone Heig… · this city
77,938 median HH income
70.1% of the leader · rank #3
Sangaree · near
77,939
Sangaree · near
77,939 median HH income
70.1% of the leader · rank #4
Fort Shaw · near
77,941
Fort Shaw · near
77,941 median HH income
70.1% of the leader · rank #5
Kirby · near
77,955
Kirby · near
77,955 median HH income
70.1% of the leader · rank #6
Black Diamond · highest
111,142
Black Diamond · highest
111,142 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Keystone Heights on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,539.
Keystone Heights ranks in the 59th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
59th
percentile, household income
46th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Keystone Heights, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 1,539 residents in Keystone Heights, a small town within Florida. The typical household in Keystone Heights brings in $77,938 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.2%. Keystone Heights's housing stock carries a median value of $212,200, and the median resident age is 38.4 years. About 28.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 57.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Keystone Heights's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Keystone Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Keystone Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What does the education layer cover for Keystone Heights?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 28.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Keystone Heights?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are East Palatka (1,536 residents, $72,153 income); Black Diamond (1,549 residents, $111,142 income); Greenville (1,549 residents, $58,036 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wellman, IA (1,539 residents); Garden City, MO (1,539 residents); Fountain Green, UT (1,539 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Is Keystone Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +141 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.8% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Keystone Heights?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
9.3%
Drive alone
84.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 680 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 13.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Keystone Heights, FL
41/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income C
$77,938
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Keystone Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,938
Bachelor's+ share: 55/100 (C) · 28.1%
Poverty rate: 27/100 (F) · 13.2%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Keystone Heights compare to other US cities?
Keystone Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income59% higher than other cities
Home value46% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Keystone Heights against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Keystone Heights near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Keystone Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Keystone Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#342 of 903
62nd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#665 of 894
26th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#243 of 930
73rd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#455 of 930
51st percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
59th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Keystone Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$212,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 54% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,148 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,506 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Keystone Heights sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,148 of 15,516 and #4,506 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$77,938Keystone Heights, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Keystone Heights, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Keystone Heights, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,539
Median Income
$77,938
Median Home Value
$212,200
Median Age
38.4
Poverty Rate
13.2%
Labor force participation
57.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.1%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Keystone Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,438 residents
2021
1,462 residents
2022
1,492 residents
2023
1,533 residents
2024
1,561 residents
2025
1,579 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
84.6%
Carpool
4.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
9.3%
Other
1.4%
Based on 680 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Keystone Heights. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Keystone Heights is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Keystone Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Keystone Heights compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.